Emotions in Everyday Life

Author: Debra Trmpe, Jordi Quoidbach, Maxime Taquet

main argument

• Participants experienced at least one emotion 90% of the time
• Most frequent emotions
  • Joy
  • Love
  • Anxiety
• Positive emotions 2.5x more than negative
• Positive and negative simultaneously frequently
• Network analysis to connect emotions
  • Connector emotions: stimulate same valence and repress opposite valence
    • Joy
  • Provincial emotions: stimulate same valence only
    • Gratitude
  • Distal emotions: little interactions with other emotions
    • Embarrassment

discussion

• Limitations: self-reporting mobile application
  • Emotion may have influenced reporting time
  • Workday over-reported

questions

1. How often do people experience emotions in general?
2. Which emotions do people specifically experience?
3. How central are different emotions within the emotion network?